Play cards all night until early in the morning.

Lawrence, who had stayed up all night, picked up Sophia, and Sariel woke up six sleeping captives.

Sophia opened her eyes in a daze.

Lawrence said softly, "Go home, you continue to sleep." ”

Sophia wanted to go back to sleep, but soon she was no longer sleepy and got out of Lawrence's arms and walked.

"Go back and sleep again." Sophia still likes the big bed at home.

Lawrence led the men towards the tavern door.

Doug was still playing cards, and when he saw Lawrence leaving, he said, "Lawrence, help me make two more decks of cards, and I'll trade slaves for them." ”

Lawrence raised his hand and said, "No problem, the slave will not be needed first, I am short of some salt, give me fifty jars of salt." ”

"It's easy." Doug smiled: "Wait a minute, I'll have someone go to the East Lim Mountains to bring salt, and it takes a lot of salt to marinate the fish." ”

The Bhumithes had fixed salt lakes to draw salt, not by the sea, but in the mountains to the east.

Pickled vegetables, bacon meats, and cooking require a lot of salt, so I go there every once in a while.

This time he brought a lot of loot, including a full cabin of food and cloth, and the food problems of the Bhumixiu people for more than a year were solved.

Meat is still to be obtained from the mountains or nearby, so enough salt is also prepared.

Once the deal was completed, Lawrence returned home with his newly purchased slaves.

Lawrence led the sheep forward, and six slaves walked behind with carts with gifts from Andrew.

The five boxes add up to seven or eight hundred catties, and the two dom sheep just ran a long distance yesterday, and after a night of rest, they pulled heavy loads up the mountain, and they were very weak at this time.

Lawrence said: "There are still two sheep missing, and we need to buy some mounts. ”

Sariel nodded, "Yes, Nala also needs to rest, she will get sick and fall down if she keeps working, let's buy cattle from Doug!" ”

Lawrence was not so optimistic, "It's easy to buy slaves from the Bhumesi, but it's troublesome to buy livestock, and they don't sell them at this time, especially special animals like cattle and domes." ”

Chickens, sheep and pigs are okay, but cattle and domes are not, and they will not be sold if they can't survive.

Sariel felt the same way, "So what to do?" ”

Lawrence said helplessly: "First of all, when it is convenient to go out in winter, we will go outside with Doug to exchange supplies and see if there are cattle and sheep for sale in the distant town." ”

"Deer and pigs are fine. ”

Lawrence didn't feel that easy.

Livestock in this area is worth a lot of money, and a good mount is outrageously expensive.

Prices are inherently unstable, and both food, livestock, and others are in demand.

Not only can the mount speed up the road, but it can also lead people away at critical moments.

In this turbulent and savage region, the role of mounts is magnified several times, and a good mount can be exchanged for ten beautiful women, and even a little loss.

The price of slaves is also low at present, and the region cannot support a large number of slaves for a long time.

Now it can be raised because it has just gained a wave of fat, and once it fails twice in a row, the slaves will be rapidly reduced.

Lawrence soon struggled.

Good mounts are only available in big places, such as the Tran Hoof City.

It's not that far from Tranta's Hoof City, and if you have a mount, you'll be there in three days.

But Lawrence didn't have much money and didn't want to go back to that place.

"Come to think of it, we don't need mounts that much because we have difficult mountain trails here?"

Lawrence quickly convinced himself, "Just buy two domes, and in a few days I'll go to the village to see whose domes are about to give birth, and book one." ”

Sophia said happily: "Okay! Give me lambs, I'll raise lambs! ”

Lawrence and Saliel both have mounts, and Sophia wants one of hers, which is why she's so excited.

"No problem." Lawrence readily agreed.

The group continued towards the hill, and Lawrence looked at the six slaves and then at the nearby forest.

"Sariel, do you have a mount there?"

Sariel shook her head, "No, they used to raise bears and big wild boars, but those things were out of control, and when they grew up, they began to bite and eat people, and then they were raised to kill and eat, not to use as mounts." ”

"But I've heard that the Wakiri can raise wild boars."

Sarriel recounted the rumors she had heard from her father.

Lawrence said speechlessly, "Well, I know this too." ”

The city of Tranda Hoof is also known as the city of pig's trotters, and the main force of the barbarians there is the boar army.

The Earl is a nobleman belonging to the Kingdom of Loven, and naturally has a close relationship with the city of Tranda Hoof, so it is not surprising that he has mastered the techniques related to wild boars.

Domesticating wild boars is a technique of the royal family of the Kingdom of Loven, and Lawrence is not qualified to observe it, nor does he know anything about it.

It's not just technology, there is not much skill to speak of in this kind of thing, the most important thing is the variety.

A well-blooded mount has always been a status symbol.

The main carrying capacity in the north is dogs, followed by domes and cattle, and then people.

Wild boars are used for combat, not for work.

The six slaves were not material for the work, and the cart was too tired to reach the vicinity of the house.

Missionary Kenny saw three nuns in nuns' clothes running quickly from a distance.

"Mr. Lawrence, are these three your captives?"

Kenny glanced at the three nuns and the other three people nearby, all of whom were typical of the Western Kingdom.

Mainly distinguished by the costumes, the appearance and dress of the Western Kingdom are much cleaner than those of the Bumishians and the Uges.

Lawrence said, "They are the booty that the Beumithetes brought back from the other side of the sea, and there are more than a hundred people down the mountain, and these six are my slaves. ”

Kenny quickly said, "Can you please let them go?" Or let them stay here with me, and we'll find a way to raise the ransom. ”

Lawrence shook his head, "Not for now, wait until you're free to negotiate a deal with me, or go back to your hometown after getting candles and honey for me, and have the people there pay you." ”

Lawrence is not afraid of revenge, neither are the Pumixiu, and the Kingdom of Luffin is even less afraid.

The Western Kingdom dares to come and take revenge, and the barbarians of the Kingdom of Loven will quickly set their sights on this fat sheep that jumped out.

The only people who can keep the barbarians from retaliating are those who are poorer than them and less afraid of death.

Not at the moment, further north in the polar ice sea, there are only snow bears and big fish, and there are no humans.

Lawrence ignored Kenny's urgency and continued on his way with four women, two men and six slaves.

Kenny can't save anyone, but he offers to help with the cart.

While sending the convoy to the vicinity of the manor, Kenny takes the initiative to come to Lawrence's vicinity.

"Mr. Lawrence, this lady is a resident of Durella, and she is a believer in the Lord of the Dawn like I am, and is skilled in making linen clothes."

Kenny looked at Lawrence, "I know you're a benevolent gentleman, so I told them about your business, and they're willing to serve you, hoping you don't beat them or give them to those ignorant savages." ”

Lawrence smiled and said, "Yes, I just need one tailor, what about the other five?" What are you good at? ”

Kenny quickly introduces the other two men.

One is a driver who can feed and take care of livestock, and the other is a farmer in his thirties with 30 years of experience.

The names of the three women were too long to be written down.

"They were good at copying books, literature, dogma, cleaning houses, doing laundry and changing candles, going around rooms, and bringing bread and wine from the kitchen or cellar to the table," Kenny explains. ”

Lawrence was silent.

A beautiful woman like this can't be exchanged for a big boar that can be ridden by twenty combined.

(End of chapter)